<div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="gluTessBeginPolygon"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>gluTessBeginPolygon — delimit a polygon description</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">gluTessBeginPolygon</b>(</code></td><td>GLUtesselator*  </td><td><var class="pdparam">tess</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLvoid*  </td><td><var class="pdparam">data</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>tess</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                    Specifies the tessellation object (created with <a class="citerefentry" href="gluNewTess"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluNewTess</span></span></a>).
                </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>data</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                    Specifies a pointer to user polygon data.
                </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
            <code class="function">gluTessBeginPolygon</code> and <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessEndPolygon"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessEndPolygon</span></span></a> delimit the definition of a
            convex, concave or self-intersecting polygon. Within each <code class="function">gluTessBeginPolygon</code>/<a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessEndPolygon"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessEndPolygon</span></span></a>
            pair, there must be one or more calls to <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessBeginContour"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessBeginContour</span></span></a>/<a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessEndContour"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessEndContour</span></span></a>.
            Within each contour, there are zero or more calls to <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessVertex"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessVertex</span></span></a>. The vertices
            specify a closed contour (the last vertex of each contour is automatically linked
            to the first). See the <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessVertex"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessVertex</span></span></a>, <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessBeginContour"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessBeginContour</span></span></a>, and
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessEndContour"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessEndContour</span></span></a> reference pages for more details.
        </p><p>
            <em class="parameter"><code>data</code></em> is a pointer to a user-defined data structure. If the appropriate callback(s)
            are specified (see <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessCallback"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessCallback</span></span></a>), then this pointer is returned to the
            callback function(s). Thus, it is a convenient way to store per-polygon information.
        </p><p>
            Once <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessEndPolygon"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessEndPolygon</span></span></a> is called, the polygon is tessellated, and the
            resulting triangles are described through callbacks.
            See <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessCallback"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessCallback</span></span></a> for descriptions of the callback functions.
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="example"></a><h2>Example</h2><p>
            A quadrilateral with a triangular hole in it can be described as follows:
            </p><pre class="programlisting">
gluTessBeginPolygon(tobj, NULL);
   gluTessBeginContour(tobj);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v1, v1);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v2, v2);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v3, v3);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v4, v4);
   gluTessEndContour(tobj);
   gluTessBeginContour(tobj);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v5, v5);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v6, v6);
      gluTessVertex(tobj, v7, v7);
   gluTessEndContour(tobj);
gluTessEndPolygon(tobj);
            </pre><p>
        </p><p>
        </p></div>
        {$pipelinestall}{$examples}
        <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluNewTess"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluNewTess</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessBeginContour"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessBeginContour</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessCallback"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessCallback</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessEndPolygon"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessEndPolygon</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessNormal"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessNormal</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessProperty"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessProperty</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="gluTessVertex"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gluTessVertex</span></span></a>
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div id="Copyright"><h2>Copyright</h2><p>
            Copyright © 1991-2006
            Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
            Free Software B License. For details, see
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